tailieunhanh - Strategic Cultures of Transformative Organization_12

Tham khảo tài liệu 'strategic cultures of transformative organization_12', khoa học xã hội, kinh tế chính trị phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | CONCLUDING COMMENTS ON TRANSFORMATIVE ORGANIZATIONS 469 Conversely it is held that the management practices inconsistent with societal culture are likely to impede organizational effectiveness Newman and Nollen 1996 . Another way of approaching the role of societal culture is to recognize that different configurations of societal culture may be associated with different organizational qualities. For instance Hofstede 2001 observes that the societal culture dimensions of uncertainty avoidance and power distance have an influence on the quality of organization. A societal culture a high in uncertainty avoidance and high in power distance is likely to be associated with the organizational quality of standardized bureaucracy with an emphasis on standardized work processes b high in uncertainty avoidance and low in power distance is likely to be associated with the organizational quality of professional bureaucracy with an emphasis on professional qualification and skills of the workforce c low in uncertainty avoidance and high in power distance is likely to be associated with the organizational quality of authoritarian bureaucracy with an emphasis on family paternalism d low in uncertainty avoidance and low in power distance is likely to be associated with the organizational quality of mutually adjusting adhocracy with an emphasis on market type fluidity. Finally one may be interested in specific target quality such as the potential of the society to nurture transformative organization or what may be termed as transformative potential . It would then be possible to identify a configuration of societal culture that would be conducive to the attainment of the target quality and to authenticate the relationship between that benchmarked configuration and the measures of target quality. Specifically the steps involved in this process are 1 . Define the target quality in our case transformative potential 2 . Develop a benchmarked configuration of societal culture for .